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Strong abdominals muscle are essential to
maximizing performance in almost all sports. In bodybuilding, the
abdominals muscle play an extremely important role when it comes to the visible
impression your physique makes on an observer. The abs muscle are, in fact, the
visual center of the body. If you superimpose an X on the body with the
terminal points being the shoulders and the feet, the two lines cross at
the abdominals, and this is where the eyes are inevitably drawn. Men
carry a disproportionate number of fat cells in the abdominal area
compared to women (who can often be relatively fat and still have abs
showing), so well-defined abs are one sign of being in top condition -
lean, hard and strong.
A
bodybuilder is likely to score points in a contest if he has wide
shoulders and flaring lats that taper down to a firm, narrow waist. A
small waist tends to make both your chest and your thighs appear larger,
more impressive and more aesthetic.
The traditional V-shaped torso is as
important as sheer mass when it comes to creating a quality,
championship physique. We have often seen bodybuilding contests in which good
bodybuilders came in a few pounds overweight in order to appear bigger
but found the extra weight they were carrying at the waist spoiled the
visual effect. In modern bodybuilding every would-be champion, no matter
his body type, has to have well-developed abs muscle in order to be
competitive.
Lack of abdominal development, or
failure to display the abdominals muscle properly, can be very costly
for a bodybuilder during his/her
bodybuilding competition. Bodybuilding has become so competitive that
there is no longer any such thing as a champion bodybuilder without
an excellent abs at almost any level of competition.
Nowadays, the bigger men in the sport
often have problems because their abdominals muscle have become too massive,
and they get too thick in the middle and at the sides of their torso.
Often this happens as a result of doing very heavy exercises like
squads, for example, that call for a lot of involvement on the part of
the abdominals and the obliques as stabilizers. Because of this, you
almost never see these bodybuilders using weights to train their abs or
their oblique. But the fact that you put so much stress on the muscles
of the waist whenever you train heavy means that no bodybuilder - even
the smaller ones - needs to train abs using any kind of extra resistance
(though many will just before a contest). Of course, there are some
abdominal exercises that involve more effort because more of your body
weight is involved.
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